Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) is an intriguing neuropeptide with a wide range of potential biological impacts, primarily hypothesized in tissues, cells, and internal systems. Since its discovery ...

Circular RNA (circRNA) is gaining increasing attention due to its stable structure, its role in gene regulation, and more recently, its involvement in regulatory circuits mediated by other non-coding ...

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic cells undergo several rounds of division, increasing their mass. Then comes ...

Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at UChicago, is an expert in conducting environmental exposure assessments. She is actively leading efforts to build resources to study ...

Researchers at Saint Louis University's School of Medicine say T-cell dysfunction is leading to an increased risk of cancer ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin discovered important information about an enzyme that can protect cells ...

Cannabis exposure leads to genetic damage and accelerated aging, raising concerns about its transgenerational health effects ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Scientists in the 1960s first documented its existence as small dots of DNA outside chromosomes, which contain a cell’s DNA ...

An international research team has uncovered a new mechanism crucial to the production of cellular proteins. When this mechanism is disrupted, the blueprints used by the cell to produce proteins are ...

Two conflicting memories can both be activated in a worm's brain, even if only one memory actively drives the animal's behavior, finds a new study.

associate professor of biology at NYU, among other appointments. The researchers assessed about 6,200 pairs of lncRNAs and ...